Western North Carolina Sketches (First Edition) de Clarence W. Griffin - 1941

N.l.: U. S. National Section, Pan American Institute of Geography and History, 1970. Special Publication No. 2. Quarto, stiff printed wrappers, stapled, [i], 16 pp. Near-Fine.

Raleigh, NC: Dixie Press, 1946. 3rd Edition . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xvi, 362 pp. The corners of the covers are scuffed. Previous owner name on the front endpapers. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Orig. pub. Asheville, NC 1937. Reprinted 1977, 1982, 2000, 2004. Print on Demand Edition 2008. xv, 640, 41 pp., index This history of Old Tryon and Rutherford Counties by Clarence W. Griffin contains a wealth of information not available elsewhere. Tryon County was formed in 1768 from the part of Mecklenburg County west of the Catawba River. Due to inaccurate and delayed surveying, Tryon County encompassed a large area of northwestern South Carolina. The original area of the county encompassed the following modern day areas: all of Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, and Rutherford counties in North Carolina and Cherokee, Chester, Laurens, Spartanburg, Union, and York counties in South Carolina; and parts of Buke and McDowell counties in North Carolina and Greenville and Newberry counties in South Carolina. In 1779 Tryon County was divided into Lincoln and Rutherford counties in North Carolina and ceased to exist. Court records from the first days of the county preserve the names of early settlers.… Leer más

Forest City: Forest City Courier, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. 6 x 9 in. xv, 284 + [4]. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of photographs. Very good in original black cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine. Lettering dull, but legible. Clarence W. Griffin was a prominent Rutherford County newspaperman, author, and historian. Inscribed by Griffin on the half-title.

Asheville NC: Inland Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 136p octavo,. A fine copy in black cloth signed by the author on the half title. The book picks up where author's first book "History of Old Tryon and Rutherford Counties 1750-1936" ended.

(Dallas, Pennsylvania): Dallas L.I.F.E. Association, 1992. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. 8pp., illustrated. Stapled printed wrappers. A little offsetting on front wrap, else near fine. Pamphlet published to illustrate a skit performed at the 1992 Annual Family Picnic of the SCI Dallas L.I.F.E. Association, a support group made up of lifetime inmates at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas, Pennsylvania, tracing the career, in six "Acts" of "Larry the Lifer", beginning with his incarceration as a young man until his eventual death in prison 50 years later, and ending with a plea in support of the cause of parole eligibility for deserving lifers. *OCLC* locates no copies.

Reprint Co. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0871522527 . Beautiful copy; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Asheville, North Carolina: The Miller Printing Company, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -. 9.25" x 6.25" x 2.5. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION, 1937. Author Clarence W. Griffin was the County Historian of Rutherford County out of Forest City, North Carolina. Hardcover. Bound in black textured publisher's cloth, gilt lettering is stamped on the cover and spine. Endpapers contain a two-page spread of a Map of Rutherford County in 1783. Occasionally illustrated with photographic plates in black and white throughout. Frontispiece is a black and white photograph of the Rutherford County Court House, Rutherfordton, North Carolina, completed in 1926. Indexed. xv, 640 pp. <br><br>EXCERPT FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "Rutherford County and North Carolina have made wonderful strides in industrial, economic and intellectual development during the past quarter of a century. Rutherford County is no longer considered an 'average' county of the commonwealth. her rank in… Leer más